Workshops produced for GLAD HE: Group for Learning in Art and Design’s Gathering Ourselves conference at Central Saint Martins, UAL, and Sheffield Hallam University’s Intersections teaching and learning conferences. Produced in collaboration with James Corazzo (NTF) and Layla Gharib (PhD). 

Care is an essential element of inclusive pedagogies that work towards a more equitable art and design education (see Decolonization as Care by Uzma Z Rizvi.) But what does it mean to  care or to centre ‘caring futures’ within our academic practices? Within this workshop, James, Layla and I worked with educators from art and design courses across the country, and helped participants explore what care means in an institutional and everyday academic context. 

Using Lego as a thinking-through-making method, we collectively built models that embody ideas and stories about care as it exists in, with and through our academic practices – across teaching, research, and leadership.